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A Very Comprehensive Analysis of Scorpio

Life & Notes2006.11.24
A Very Comprehensive Analysis of Scorpio
I have absolutely no belief in horoscopes: I neither accept them, nor need them, and they’re not even all that fun. But I admit they are very “effective,” with many things said quite accurately, and the various suggestions they give are for the most part harmless; reading them is not a bad thing. Of course, I’m not interested in reading them, unless someone else mentions one and I suddenly feel like taking a look. Horoscopes are very good at exploiting human psychology. When we see a long analysis, if there are a few passages in it that “hit the nail on the head,” so accurate as to be astonishing, then…
everyday life culture faith psychology
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2006年11月24日
Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)

Life & Notes2006.10.01
Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)
Some time ago I was living in a very abnormal way, wasting a long stretch of time again in games and cartoons. My grandfather’s death hit me very hard. It was the sort of blow that others could not see. Apart from choking up uncontrollably at his bedside when he passed away, I did not cry again when the coffin was laid out, and after I returned to school everything seemed normal. But at bedtime every night, and when I called home every week—only Grandma would answer the phone now; it could no longer be Grandpa… In the past, when I called Grandpa, I actually did not say much: ask…
philosophy everyday life Peking University psychology
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2006年10月1日
Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)

Life & Notes2006.09.05
Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)
This essay was written in March 2002, when I was in tenth grade. I happened to find the original text on my computer and post it here for a look; the problem remains the problem. September 5, 2006 1．Introduction Where does consciousness reside? You may answer without hesitation: consciousness is a function of the human brain. But have you ever thought: which part of the human brain does consciousness reside in? How does the human brain produce consciousness? Will strong AI have consciousness? Can one “consciousness” reside in multiple brains; and how many consciousnesses might one brain possess? I cannot answer these questions very well; these are questions that even…
everyday life self consciousness psychology
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2006年9月5日
A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing

Life & Notes2006.07.29
A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing
Nowadays young people…… why are they all so practical, so mature? Lately I’ve begun interacting again with the incoming class of 2006 in the Philosophy Department. I have never lost my enthusiasm for wandering around the Weilai Beida Ren community; I like interacting with new students. One reason I like wandering around the Weilai Beida Ren community is this: my own entrance into Peking University, into the Philosophy Department, was really a matter of pure chance, and for that I especially need to thank one teacher in Peking University’s admissions office. I think the best way to express gratitude is precisely this: in a certain sense I too do work…
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2006年7月29日
The Significance of Psychology for the Philosophy of Science and Technology

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.24
The Significance of Psychology for the Philosophy of Science and Technology
Today, when I went to the academic affairs office to register, I casually asked: aside from math, physics, chemistry, and biology, what else does the “natural science” category of courses required for the philosophy of technology track include—for example, do computer science and psychology count? The answer was: computer science probably counts, but psychology clearly does not. And yet when I once asked a classmate majoring in psychology, I was explicitly told that “psychology belongs to the natural sciences”! In people’s minds, psychology is the sort of thing discussed together with philosophy—in Peking University’s general education course center, psychology and philosophy are placed in the same category, and the building…
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2006年2月24日
“I Can Do It” and True Courage

Life & Notes2005.12.13
“I Can Do It” and True Courage
There are many successful people who, when they give impassioned speeches or write self-help books, lavish praise on the “I can do it” mindset. But in fact this attitude is not suitable for promotion, because in modern society, so-called successful people are very, very few. Their success certainly has something to do with their good mindset, but more importantly one cannot ignore the factors of opportunity and luck. It is impossible for everyone to be that accomplished in life. If everyone insists on the “I can do it” mindset, yet cannot have a healthy estimate of their own potential, then the result for more people will be disappointment. This is…
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2005年12月13日
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by

Culture & Public Commentary2005.07.31
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by
《Crowds: A Study of the Popular Mind》[Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / author, Feng Keli / translator, Zhongyang Bianyi Press, 2004.1 This book, written in 1895, was judged by Freud to be “a truly great work” and “an exquisitely detailed description of the collective mentality”; the great American social psychologist Allport went even further, calling it the most “influential” work in the field of psychology to date. And yet this book has also drawn an enormous amount of controversy and refutation. Clearly, it is a book full of prejudice, but that cannot erase its profound insights and far-reaching influence. Le Bon points out that once an individual enters a group, his…
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2005年7月31日